DIGITAL FUTURES - 5 - DISCUSSION

Future everything event, our digi futures outcome will be a part of this event. It coincides with the assessment.

Speculative design, speculating the future.

Feminising technology and the body scans as a starting point.

From the scan we have a visual and a set of data.

How we inhabit spaces 109.com using DNA to re-create faces from gum and ciggi buts. Heather Dewey.

When going to a party we have to take a cake or bottle,this is what collaborating is, you have to bring something to the party!

The assessment will be on a body of work and a narrative and what we have done on this impacts in practice 3. Make, write and articulate how it links to my practice.

27th - 28th march FE conference.

Go though the FE website and see what we like about it and come up with ideas together

noma53.com 29th - 30th March.

Fabrizzio wants outline of our project idea.

Siobhan Murphy Royal Academy

We need to ask Chris to put the Facebook into moodle

TUESDAY TALK - SIMON PATTERSON

 

 

Simon is a YBA in the 80's

If you can survive the first couple of years out of college as an artist then you can make it as an artist.

Simon placed his slides randomly into the projected to encourage him to talk differently about his work.

Public art works are problematic - temporary works are more enjoyable.

His smoke scenes, he made them a spectacle rather than an artwork (smoke grenades)

Spinal tap map with groupies shown at uni, the work was more for the staff as they would relate to it and the students would have to learn about it!

His work is currently in the Holden Gallery as part of the Diagrams exhibition. The chemical periodic table of elements.

Did some work on kites where he would create them to resemble particular artists work and then place their names on the wall around the kites.

Mythologising of the West. His girlfriend has a great interest in the West and she believe that all things have come from this, I.e. sci-fi, fiction etc etc.

Who is the work for? Simon talks to the people in the area he knows a piece will be installed.

Note for Patti, the speakers on the window which transmit different sounds to different areas of the glass pane.

He likes the artist who reads out the football results or games and then relates them to Pantone colours, synaesthesia.

QUE FOR ME - what systems are in use now, I.e. the Pantone book, versus the change in how we are taught to use things. Knitting machine, you would have someone come round to your house to demonstrate the workings of the machine or could buy an instruction video. These days we refer to YouTube for this. What else has technology changed in this way and how can this be adapted to our world now?

Simon designed The Great Bear, London Underground piece. He says it is strange for an artist to have an artwork that people recognise before they know who the artist is.

Que from the audience about art dealers. Simon says that most art dealers he has dealt with are weirder than artists, they were more than likely artists in the past themselves. He says they are domineering.

Simon thinks that it is not good to get caught up doing the same piece of artwork over and over because it works. You need to keep the mind moving. I.e. when he had produced the periodic table it worked and so he continued to create more but slightly varying. His girlfriend told him enough was enough and suggested he tried something new!

HOUSEKEEPING - 1

DIGITAL FUTURES - 4 - PAUL SCOTT

Paul Scott Lecture

• Cumbrian Blue
• Artist involved in research throughout all of his career
• Works mainly with ready made traditional ceramics
• Graphics, painting and drawing were his background
• Hot off the press book about how to print onto ceramics. Paul Scott & Terry Bennett
• Book is about how to print and then he had an exhibition which was about why (Exhibition “are you sitting comfortably”)
• Stoke on Trent Gladstone
• Phd funded by MIRIAD bursary
• Digital technology and how it can help artists
• a-n.co.uk as students we have full access to their website, knowledge bank and artists talking section
• Updates book ceramics and print, contemporary practice in ceramics
• Megumi Naiton - artists work in special collections, i-phone series
• Scott Rench - yosoh.com (studied at Edinburgh uni in USA)
• Scott curates, writes and works to commission
• Scott takes the historical and puts the contemporary in
• Foot & Mouth plate, Ai Wei Wei plate
• When we go on holiday we’d take photographs as souvenirs, back in the day people used to make paintings as souvenirs
• Magazines and books, disseminate paintings and images out to the population
• Ceramics copied by putting the images onto ceramic plates (images)
• Designed landscapes, rich people moved a village and planned the landscape so that they could have a nice painting of their house
• Blue & white ceramics goes East to West and vice versa
• English potters copied Eastern patterns
• His digital scan enabled him to re-visualise it at a larger scale
• Pixels in mosaic and on screen - ceramic wall in Hanei
• Putting ceramics back into nature to create full circle - ceramics tree
• ceramic.co.uk - ceramic research centre
• English style copper plates from Sweden
• Can print from metal plates as etching or do a relief print from the actual plate
• Laser engraved plates from digital artwork for when the engraves retires
• Image of mosaic was has motorcyclists driving past which Scott like and incorporated into his works.
• Ceramic engravers now usually make bank notes
• Interested in the different languages between prints enplanes, engraving and digital
• Digital technology allows us to access lots of information online and quickly. Interested in the way it is presented, instagram etc
• Scotts work appeals to people who don’t understand contemporary art as they relate to the ceramic plates.
• Look out for his talks on MIRIAD online

JOHN HYATT - THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGINATION

 

Mind mapping is a useful technique - Tony Buzan, book on mind mapping.

John is an artist/scientist.

Labels are helpful as they limit you.

John has theories which he then tests.

Knowledge is something until proven wrong.

Imagination is no larger than knowledge as it contains knowledge.

2010 cymatics research.

Johns mum passed away and so he decided to research the science of resonant wave forms whilst he had spare time at home.

Ernst Chladni (d.1827) - visualising sound.

Dr Hans Jenny (1967) - Cymetics book.

Everything in the universe is made of waves and so John tested this.

Vibrator on bed with sand. Sand acts like a liquid. Film - say hello to the sandman.

The sand when vibrated crates feedback loops, systems and synchronisation.

John was interested in how it works as a system, rather than the patterns it made.

The sand made patterns  or turbulence (it formed shapes that resembled nature like arms and toes) it produced chaos and anti-chaos, a biomimess.

The sand appeared chaotic but it has order. Harmonious laminate, organised variety, scripted individuality, life paths in space time.

The fast pieces would move about on the bottom (big pieces? - cant remember the sizes) then the middle would move at a medium pace and the top pieces would be slow.

Simplicity in big shapes, randomness in the smaller pieces.

Aesthetics, the golden section, beauty, Fibonacci sequence which is the structure by which plants grow. It is the law if nature.

As an artist John set himself in front of an empty canvas and emptied his mind and painted whatever came to the canvas. Spiral shapes appeared from which he used this as a grid or template to form his painting on. He looked at the shapes and then compiled a scene from them which would more than likely be landscapes with random context such as a frog playing a guitar.

Marxist.

Looking at a painting is like looking at the structure of the brain.

He also created digital visuals where he would draw circles in photoshop based on his experiments tank then apply a folding technique which you use in say folding dough and re-create an image from the circles. These images would then be transferred onto clothing designs for musicians from his paintings.  

John has an exhibition coming up on feb 2nd called second life.

Creative spiral encourages thinking in bendy ways, non-linear thinking.

John advocates not to think on your course!

j.hyatt@mmu.ac.uk

HOUSEKEEPING MEETING

• Practice 2 - Having established what I am doing and moving it forward. At the end of the unit we have to propose what final bit of the work will be.
• The tutors will look at our work and see if what we had proposed is what we have accomplished.
• Formative assessment is an ongoing process through ourselves, our peers and tutors. Record any conversations with peers. Be honest and critical.
• Summative assessment is at the end of the unit. Visual and oral presentation as in Practice 1. Be short and concise, might not have finished anything at this point but need to explain where your at.
• Essay 1000 - 1500 words. Reflectove what have you learnt from your practice rather than descriptive. Be inclusive, things you’ve read, conversations you’ve had. Bibliographies, books, websites, exhibitions.
• In Practice 2 you need to see where your practice fits in the “real world”. Make sure you understand the structure that you are using to go through your work.
• Blog - good for you but you need to edit and prioritise info. It’s not about quantity more about the content
• Edit and tell the narrative.